meat a licious!

Tony made me steak today, he was so excited.
I think it was blue, or half alive, cause it was so pinkish red in the middle, and not just a little tiny part of the middle, most of the flesh was bright pink red, I swear he seared the sides and then called it done.

It was chewy but he seasoned it nice and so I ate it.
I think he was surprised that I ate all my meat.

craftin

I like making things.
I find it soothing to doodle or make things.
I've been getting into painting porcelain plates and dishes and things. I got the idea from etsy and figured it didn't look that hard.
I ordered some neat paint markers from eBay before Christmas and then my first project turned out to be Christmas presents for my parents.
I wish I had pictures of them, they were a set of 3 plates with fall leaves painted on them.

This is my latest project:

As you can see its not finished yet, but the little birds will be all painted with detail soon!


I like the little red birds. Especially the one with his butt turned towards you.


There will be more fun things to come, I am thinking of new stuff in my head now all the time!
Maybe a teapot or set :O

a new do

I have had a straightener for a while, haven't used it much.
Tony hates it because he thinks I look like a different person.

Last night he came to bed and said "Good night straight haired stranger".
Hes a funny one. Hes now having fun putting his hands through my hair, which he wasnt able to do before without me screaming. I cringe when he does it still because I think his hands will get caught in a big mess.

Heres a before shot of what my hair is like before I straighten it:

It has to be dry and brushed out with no product in it. mmmm frizz

Goofing around

Tony actually wanted to be in the pictures this time!

The bird makes an appearance!

This is a good thing to do when its snowing outside.

You know its time to get groceries when dinner consists of french fries and a package of gravy.
It wasn't bad though.

The Benjamin button movie was pretty good. we went out to see it with Earl and his fiance Laura. It was kinda long but good. Made me cry.

I think I am gonna get more fries.

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Merry Merry Christmas

-Love Miranda and Tony

Tagged!

I've been tagged by Heidi.
The name of the game is to open the 4th picture folder on your computer and post the 4th picture from that folder on your blog.
Then you need to describe it.
Then you get to tag 4 people to do the same.

This was taken when Aria and my mom came out to visit. They stayed overnight and we went shopping at metrotown for Christmas presents. They had fun, Aria was terrified of the bird flying overhead, the sound of fluttering wings made her cower and cover her head.
We were being silly with the camera right before bed and this is the result of it.

Now I wish to tag Jennifer, Aria and Katie and James!

Merry Christmas from the bird

She was very energetic this morning, so it was hard to get her to pose in front of the tree. She doesnt like the tree at all and refused to get too close.

All I want for Christmas is my 2 front teeth

or in this case, a dentist.
We were eating pizza, (the most softest food alive!) it just came out of the oven, all gooey and awesome. As I was eating this I saw Tony look a little weird and then head to the bathroom. Maybe there was something stuck in his teeth, well, kinda.
He came back to my desk and put something weird on my desk. At first I thought it was food that was stuck in his face, and was disgusted, until I saw it. A little piece of tooth.
Apparently when eating pizza, your tooth can break off in your mouth.
I thought it could have been a filling, but no, I was wrong.
On our to do list today is to find a dentist.
New dentists scare me.
The hunt is on, hopefully its not something really serious.

"Thank you for being so good to me"

Says the boy as I come home. He holds a bouquet of flowers out to me. I was beaming.

Its been a rough week, all the exams were this week for Tony, and he was quite stressed out. I would be too if my computer died and I had 4 exams to do.

He seems very relieved to have it all be done with. Now on to the Christmas stress, that will affect me more than him though as I am used to having spectacular Christmases at my parents place. Now its all up to me to make it special. We are having our own Christmas day thing, just me and him, and that is defiantly different, but I am kinda looking forward to it. I am also looking forward to dinner at my parents and his parents house as well.
Mmmm turkey dinner!

Going to try and find the newest episodes of House to watch on my bus rides to work.

Healthy computer and new mac stuff!

I haven't been able to think about what to write.
We got the computer back, its better, Tony is very happy.
He was getting annoyed at the weird functions on my mac.
The bird has been very clingy to him, she is always on him or near him. He totally doesn't mind and he takes her around the house everywhere.
Its almost American thanksgiving! I am so hoping its slow at work, it should be.
We are having a thanksgiving potluck at work, complete with either KFC chicken or those pre bought chickens from Safeway. mmm kfc! I think I am gonna bring cranberry stuff or stuffing cause I dont wanna leave it up to the guys to make stove top stuffing.

Coley and I wanted to see James Bond a couple weeks ago and it didnt turn out well because it was sold out. Since we were downtown we headed over to the MAC store on Robson and we found awesome foundation. It doesnt turn me orange and it covers up everything so well! We each got the same one as our skin is that same pale colour.



Its the studio tech foundation and its awesome! Also, Mikaela, as you can see I have your Hello Kitty neclace still.

There have been so many commercials for subway, and now I am slowly wanting a meatball sub.

Goodbye computer

Last night Tony was turning on his computer and it did this. Well, it first got a bad blue screen error, so he turned it off. Then it flat lined-- literally! He turned it back on and it was black with white lines and a red line going though the middle of the computer.

He called Dell, they said it would need to be serviced. Its motherboard died. He has to send it in and it will be gone for 3 weeks, and most likely they will format his harddrive and that wont be cool. There goes a year and a half of school stuff and work.

This is what Tony looked like after the call to Dell. He was really sad. He tried to use my computer last night, and got pretty frustrated cause its a mac and he doesnt use macs.

Maybe this is why hes not back from school, he might be doing all his homework there tonight.

one more week

Until Aria returns from Europe! YAY!
Very excited to pick her up from the airport.
I wanna see all her pictures and souvenirs and things from out there!

Today was kind of uneventful, work was slow as it was the American election today.
It seems like everyone voted this year.
I was watching CNN and still am. Apparently they are predicting Obama to win this one, but we shall see the final count later tonight.

The bird is very energetic, flying to my shoulder and back to her cage where her bell is.
I cant wait for the weekend again, every time it hits Wednesday, I get antsy for the weekend.
Perhaps its because I can be crafty and clean the house (which badly needs it)...the dishes are stacked on my tiny counter and they looks awful. This is what I feel like my kitchen is when I look at it...



I should really clean my desk, embossing glitter is all over and when I look at my sleeves they are pretty and sparkly.

I wanna show off my crafts, but they are for Christmas, so I must wait. (They are Christmas Cards)

Goodbye tree

This used to be my pretty ficus tree. It had the coolest roots and pretty green leaves. Now its dead on my table and I have to throw it away. I noticed its leaves were turning brown, thought it got too much sun and so I watered it. I kept watering that sucker. One day I touched its root cause it looked weird, and my fingers squished into the bark. Bad sign.

We thought it would live if we stopped watering it and left it in the sun again. That didn't work out. Now hes waiting on the table to be chucked in the garbage.

I am sad about that tree cause I liked him. Well, all my other plants are doing ok. The basil is great producing more leaves for my food. The basil and the tree are separated just incase the basil sees the tree and drops dead.

much better

there we go, its not christmasy or anything but I love the colours.

sharing

I don't think Tony and the bird were discussing that the bird would share his breakfast, but it happened.

She tried to get her feets in the bowl too, she got shooed away promptly after that.

Presenting Pumpkin Pie!

That's right, I finally made it. I chickened out last weekend and didn't make it, but had all the ingredients for it. Today I woke up and felt I had to make pie. So right after getting dressed and breakfast, I set up all my stuff and went to work on Aria's Pastry Recipe.

First I didn't put enough flour on the counter and the pastry I rolled out stuck to it. Had to re roll it out and that wasn't so good, but it didn't stick. I didn't do anything fancy with the crust on the edges like Aria does, but that's ok. Popped the pastry in my pie plate (from Grandma S) and then went on to the filling.

Filling was fun, Aria's instructions said to mix it until it looked gross, and that was what I did. Filled it, baked it with the tinfoil on for 15 min (not sure if I was right in removing it, but it isn't burnt).

So here it is in all its glory:

mmm this was my sample. It was much tasty!

Halloween!

I am not dressing up, though it would be fun, but I am doing Mik's Makeup for that night.
Tested it out today, and its not bad.

I used a while eyeliner pencil to draw the outline and then a cream purple shadow then a purple and pink shadow to make the colour darker.



I am thinking of trying hot pink in there to see if it will work. I wasnt sure because the hot pink shadow (Sushi flower) isnt as dark as I'd like.



I am hoping she brings her guitar cause she cant be a rock star without it or a mic.

So that was what I was up to this afternoon, that and doing laundry :P

I just want to get rid of the ugly green background!!!

WHY WONT IT LET ME?!??!?!?! GRRRR Stupid template! I dont want to use another template cause I like this one...

Maybe the green will just go away if I leave it a while....

Please don't mind the ugly green in my winter ish set up.

The last thing I want to do when I get home...

is call Bell and yell and wait on hold for an insane amount of time to get things fixed!
I checked my phone bill and things weren't programmed properly...AGAIN!
My fault for not taking a closer look at the bill, but I shouldn't have to have my phones programmed 3 TIMES!

I called and got the evilest HAG EVER!! Oh my goodness, she wouldn't do anything, didn't care to understand or read any of the notes on my account.
Asked for her manager, and waited on hold while she got one. I so thought she was gonna hang up on me instead of getting him.

Well, after waiting for a while, her manager came on. He was so calm and patient and figured it all out. Hes calling me back to reprogram things right and to take care of my bills.

Well, I hope he can fix it up all nice, I am going to await his call on Monday. I will try to be nice to him.

I am kinda glad I work at a call center, I understand what you need to do to get things done, I wish it weren't so difficult though.

I dont care what they offer me when my contract is up, I am sooooo done.


THE LINE IS BACK!!! WRINKLED IN THE MIDDLE OF MY FOREHEAD!!! Not a good after work face. I need to find something to do to calm down. I think a trip to the corner store for a chocolate bar or some penny candy is in order.

ta ta for now